GERMANY’S TROUBLES

Otago Witness, Issue 3525, 4 October 1921, Page 28

GERMANY’S TROUBLES

LONGTERM CREDITS NECESSARY. PARIS, September 26. speaking at Essen. Dr von Simons stated that every impartial observer recognised that the payments demanded by the Allies couid not be met. Germany was not in a position to supply the coin in L| e sums demanded, even lor one year. Tits only way to settle the monetary matters seemed to he the granting of loneterm credits, for which Germanv looked to America, but there the situation was changed. Dr ion Simons advocated an international conference to settle the probbrns ■ c ex< , aw material. A NOTE C ’ ALARM. LONDON. September 25. The ! iirv-q despite official German cumli'diction, revives a former story, with the German Government conniving with the militarist clique in -persistent elfort.-. to evade the disarmament lines of the Versailles Tr eaty, and : pig cn .dif ions h" •which ■ . and well equipped Brmy can b caLoi ;p at a mmn; nt's notice. 7he Tit: e* st.u , that tin inform;!- j 4io 1 leads to the i to make ]

personnel, depots, and material for an army of 800,000, and urges the necessity for Allied control and scrutiny of Germany's intentions now that the question of the withdrawal of the Interallied Control Commission has arisen, and because the limitation of armaments stands n-e----rnost in the agenda at the Washington Conference. The Times adds: “We do not wish to raise a cry of alarm; but Europe can be at peace only if Germany is certainly and surely at peace. The new German Republic is at once a confession of failure.” The Times declares that there is much evidence to show how swiftly the mobilisation of the new army is being interwoven with the very structure of the Republic, and points to Germany’s enormous engineering resources, with its unrivalled facilities for the production c; poison gas. which, despite the recent unexplained explosion, can unobtrusively and without difficulty be reconverted into a plant for the production of munitions. BAVARIAN AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. BERLIN, September 26. The newspapers state that a conference between Dr Wirth (Chancellor) and Herr Lerchenfeld (Premier of Bavaria) resulted in a satisfactory settlement of the dispute between Bavaria and the Central Government.